Threat intelligence reports, detection engineering guides, and cybersecurity research from the Magonia team.
The EDR Telemetry Project's website tells visitors to "validate detection logic" and endorses its use for guiding procurement decisions. The disclaimers saying it shouldn't be used for that exist only on GitHub. Public feedback suggesting it be clarified it can't be used for detection were ignored.
Every detection can be evaded. So what's worse: missing an attack or drowning in noise? The Base-Rate Fallacy shows that false positives are the true limiting factor. The goal isn't to be perfect; it's to be a difficult target. Each layer that forces an adversary to adapt is a win.
A new paper questions fuzzy hashing, but real-world data tells a different story. I share practical lessons for reducing false positives and argue that the future of TLSH isn't in alerting, it's in enriching events to create high-fidelity detections.
Have we become so focused on TTPs that we've dismissed the value at the bottom of the pyramid? This post explores what role IOC's have in a modern detection program if any, and what the future may look like for them.
In cybersecurity, nobody agrees on what "visibility" means. This post cuts through vendor hype with a practical framework, using a Splunk article's model of telemetry, monitoring, and observability to give your entire team a shared language to build better defenses.
Ask anyone who’s worked in a SOC long enough and they’ll tell you: debates over “true positive” versus “false positive” happen a lot. Usually, the conversation goes in circles—one person insists an alert was a false positive, another argues it was technically a true positive,
I'm excited to announce the release of CelesTLSH CLI, a lightweight CLI interface tool for calculating, comparing, and analyzing TLSH hashes. This tool is designed to help security professionals quickly identify potentially malicious files by comparing them against a database of known attack tools.